Sarah Kazemeini (Medicine) was awarded 1st place at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV with her podium presentation, “Alzheimer’s and the APP Gene: Insights from the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium.” This study emphasizes the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene's significant role in…

UNLV repeated their first place win in racquetball for Corporate Challenge. Congratulations to the team! Erica Marti (Civil & Environmental Engineering and Construction) - 1st place, women's singles; Venki Muthukumar (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Sid Raich (Social and Behavioral Health) - 1st place, men's doubles; Adam Koebke (…

Asma Tahir (Environmental and Occupational Health) was recently featured on the City Cast Las Vegas podcast for an episode titled, "Is Allergy Season Getting Worse in Las Vegas?" How did a desert town like Las Vegas get so pollen-y, and is allergy season getting worse? In this episode, co-host Sarah Lohman sits down with Asma Tahir, supervisor of…

Noah Price (Libraries) is the winner of the Innovative Solutions and Customer Service Award. Price received the award for providing excellent customer service to internal and external stakeholders in the Libraries, at UNLV, and in the Southern Nevada community, developing and managing events and programming that support the Libraries’ mission. In…

Stephanie Wang (Medicine) earned 2nd place at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV for the poster presentation, “Investigating Artificial Intelligence in Bioethics and Medical Education: Can ChatGPT Answer Ethical Questions Appropriately?” Collaborating with Raul Saucedo, Kaitlin Hock, Timothy Shaw (all…

Lily Liu (Medicine) secured 2nd place at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV for her study, "Investigating The Use of Open vs. Endoscopic Drainage for Pancreatic Pseudocyst Among Adults: A 2017-2020 National Inpatient Sample Study," in collaboration with Camryn Schroeder (Medicine), and physicians Renuka…

Jacquelyn Fields (Medicine) secured first place at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV with her poster: CEM radiomics for distinguishing lesion from background parenchymal enhancement in patients with invasive breast cancer. Collaborating with B.A. Varghese, M. Perkins, S. Cen, X. Lei, J. Jamie, B.…

Alex Woster (Medicine) presented his study "Sensitivity and Specificity of Sex for Detecting Differences in Depth Jumps Performed by NCAA Athletes" at the 26th Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum at UNLV. Collaborating with Talin Louder, Brennan J. Thompson, and Eadric Bressel from Utah State University, the team…

The April edition of Nevada Lawyer Magazine, published by the State Bar of Nevada, features an article by Riana Durrett (Cannabis Policy Institute) on cannabis rescheduling. The article, which reviews banking and tax questions in relation to possible cannabis rescheduling, also gives an overview of the history of cannabis legalization in the…